13 Tons of Cocaine Linked to Sinaloa Cartel

A Mexican cartel allegedly tried to smuggle 13 tons of cocaine by hiding it in barrels of hot sauce.

“The Mexican government was tipped off to the cocaine-laced ‘salsa picante’ through intelligence work among different government branches.”

According to the website Blog del Narco, the Mexican navy found the barrels full of zesty condiment and cocaine in Manzanillo, Colimo, about 500 miles west of Mexico City. The drugs are believed to belong to the Sinaloa Cartel.

Contestants had to dip a toothpick in the hot sauce and put it on their tongues. One of the hot sauces in this hot sauce challenge is so incredibly hot, people are required to sign waivers before sampling it.

“The next thing I knew, I had woken up on a stretcher in a hospital room — covered in vomit.”

“Schmitz was rushed to an emergency room for an MRI scan of his brain. That’s when they discovered a cancerous brain tumor in its early stages.”

“I made it the five minutes. My sister then said she wanted to take the challenge, but I said, ‘you might want to hold off. I’m feeling really sick,’” Schmitz told ABC News.

The sauce caused Schmitz to suffer a seizure.

“Within a few days, he had the tumor removed and the treatment was complete. The tumor would not have been discovered had it not been for the hot sauce.”

“The next thing I knew, I had woken up on a stretcher in a hospital room — covered in vomit,” he said in the letter he sent to the Pepper Palace, the business that hosted the challenge. Read the rest of this entry »

A Chicago high school is facing charges after reportedly spiking a container of marinara sauce with fiery hot sauce, sending three people to the hospital, police said.

The 17-year-old Highland Park High School student is being charged as a juvenile on five counts of misdemeanor battery in the May 14 prank. Three cafeteria workers were treated by the school’s nurse before being treated at a local hospital for coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath and skin rashes, school district spokeswoman Natalie Kaplan told the Chicago Tribune.

Highland Park Police Deputy Chief George Pfutzenreuter said the employees did not have to ingest the hot sauce to develop symptoms because it wasn’t ordinary hot sauce.

“I don’t think you can find this one in the store,” he said of the Da Bomb hot sauce brand. “It sounds like this kid had to get it someplace special.”

Two students also reported symptoms but did not require a trip to the hospital, Kaplan told the newspaper.

District officials recently purchased a security surveillance system and were in the process of choosing locations for the cameras, Kaplan said.

“We decided, based upon that incident, that we’ll go ahead and install cameras in the cafeteria where the incident occurred,” she said.

The student, who is expected to appear in juvenile court this week, was identified by the school and disciplined, but Kaplan declined to elaborate, citing privacy concerns.